| Full title: The FAST GAME 'NET-A-BALL' (on cover).
Maker: The 'Newfooty' Co.
Type: this game is a netball and basketball version of tiddlywinks played on a tabletop.
Intellectual property markings: "Invented and Manufactured by THE 'NEWFOOTY' CO. LIVERPOOL, 4" (on cover); "Patent applied for" (on rules); // Copyright The "Newfooty" Co. // (on rules).
Rules: // INSTRUCTIONS AND RULES FOR "NET-a-BALL" // (3 sides in a leaflet) and // ADAPTING "NET-A-BALL" to "BASKET-BALL" // (2 sides of a sheet).
Cardboard box dimensions: 11 1/2" wide, 9 1/2" high, 1 1/2" deep.
Advertisement for game: an article about a party where "Net-a-Ball" was played appears in Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, Friday 2 July 1943, page 5, column 4 <https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001068/19430702/077/0005>.
An advertisement for "NET-A-BALL" appears in Shields Daily News, Thursday 3 October 1957, page 11, column 1, below a reference to Newfooty Table Soccer <https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002077/19571003/173/0011>. Also appears in other British newspapers in 1958.
An advertisement for the football game called "Newfooty" from "The Newfooty Co." appears in the Daily Herald, Saturday 9 December 1933, page 9, column 7 <https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19331209/155/0009>.
Another advertisement states that the "Newfooty" game (not "Net-a-Ball") was invented in 1929: Aberdeen Press and Journal, Saturday 20 November 1948, page 4, column 7 <https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19481120/082/0004>.
Tucker Tiddlywinks ID: NFT-01c1
AGPI ID: G-38374
AGPI Game Catalog web link: http://gamecatalog.org/game/?gameid=38374 |